Lou Kongyu is just a child after all, and he is not very good at hiding his emotions.
Or he didn't deliberately hide this awareness. After all, he hadn't made close friends with anyone in the entire year since he came to the cultivation world, and Chu Lu always spoke when he was alone, so as not to cause embarrassment or suspicion.
Therefore, he did not realize his sudden change of attitude, which caused Chen Jingzhi to turn around and look at him with some doubt in his eyes.
However, the identity of a child turned out to be the best cover, and the sudden change of thoughts was also very normal. In the end, Chen Jingzhi was just confused for a moment and did not think about it any further.
A group of people followed the direction of the tracking incense. Behind them, a branch shook slightly, but no one noticed.
Chu Lu’s spiritual sense flashed past.
The demon cultivator in the teahouse? He didn't seem to have any bad intentions.
The four of them finally stopped on an open space.
Compared to the dense trees around, this place with a few sparse bushes can indeed be called an open space. The scent of the tracking incense finally stopped here, and the spirit butterfly in Ruan Chang's hand also completely disappeared.
But this place is really an empty space, even Tibetans can't do it.
The four of them looked at each other.
Finally, it was Mu Yanyan who first proposed the guess, "In this case, is there a secret place here? Ancient battlefield ruins, fairyland fragments, the mausoleum of the powerful or something like that?"
This made the other two look over. Although Lou Kongyu didn't understand why, he also chose to follow the others.
Mu Yanyan was so angry at being stared at by so many people that her face turned red and she shouted, "Why are you looking at me like that?!"
Ruan Chang had a complicated expression on her face. After a long while, she whispered, "Yan Yan, did you secretly take back the notebook that Master Mu Feng took away from you last time?"
Mu Yanyan paused for a moment, and continued loudly: "It's not 'secretly', it's originally..."
She realized something halfway through her words, swallowed the rest of her words, and red-facedly tried to save face, "This is not from the storybook, this is what the headmaster said himself, this is how the tomb of Yangpo Immortal was discovered by Yaochuan Jianzun!"
Ruan Chang felt that Master Mu Feng might have done a good job, and that her friend should probably read less of those storybooks.
Lou Kongyu actually didn’t quite understand the logic of their conversation, but he also understood Ruan Chang’s denial.
He lowered his voice and asked quietly: "Why not a secret place?"
Lou Kongyu was actually asking about Chu Lu. After all, he was only at the third level of Qi training, and his spiritual awareness was not strong enough to support secret sound transmission. He usually spoke in a low voice when communicating with Chu Lu.
But at this moment, the three people nearby all had cultivation and very good hearing. Although Lou Kongyu's voice was small, it was loud enough to be heard clearly.
Ruan Chang opened her mouth, as if thinking about how to explain, but Mu Yanyan's reaction was much more direct. She was obviously very happy to get support. She raised her hand and touched Lou Kongyu's hair a few times, with an expression of "you have some knowledge" on her face, and her tone became confident, "Yes, why can't it be a secret realm?"
Lou Kongyu didn't expect that his question to the immortal senior was actually heard by others, and his expression immediately tensed up. But fortunately, this expression looked more like the nervousness due to the discomfort of interacting with people, at least that's what Ruan Chang thought.
She quietly pulled her friend's hand, and at the same time moved away a little, considerately giving the child enough space.
At the same time, Chu Lu in the sea of consciousness also responded, "The space here is unstable, it may indeed be the entrance to the secret realm."
Meanwhile, Ruan Chang had already begun to quietly explain to Lou Kongyu the probability of discovering the secret realm.
If the secret realm was really so easy to discover, it would have been everywhere by now.
Ruan Chang's statement was well-reasoned, and even Mu Yanyan's expression began to waver.
She had just said it casually, and even if she refuted it, she was just holding on with all her might. Ruan Chang knew her friend's character very well, and was about to give her a way out, but suddenly she heard a childish voice next to her asking, "If it is really a secret place, how do we get in?"
Although Ruan Chang's words made sense, Lou Kongyu believed in the immortal senior more.
Naturally, he was asking this question to Chu Lu, but because he was heard when he spoke in a low voice just now and Chu Lu reminded him, he chose to ask directly.
Chu Lu naturally had a way to help them open the secret realm, but he felt that with his current reputation in the cultivation world, he would probably be hunted down and killed as soon as he showed up. It wouldn't matter to him, but Lou Kongyu's situation would probably become difficult.
Judging from the current situation, there is no need to do so.
And based on his observations along the way, if he was right—
[That boy, he has a way.]
The person he was referring to was naturally Chen Jingzhi.
Lou Kongyu subconsciously looked up following Chu Lu's words, and happened to meet Shen Jingzhi's eyes. Those clear eyes seemed to be able to see through people, and the young man did not hide the inquiry in his expression.
Lou Kongyu froze immediately, and he couldn't help but start recalling where he had revealed his mistake just now.
But now when I think back on it, there are problems everywhere.
Although he had not been in the cultivation world for a long time, it was enough for him to realize the nature of the jungle. Killing people for treasures was common, and even Lou Kongyu himself had seen it several times. However, because he was really of no value, and was alert enough under the reminder of the immortal senior, he did not encounter any bad things.
But his lack of value does not mean that the immortal predecessor has no value.
If the seniors found out...
Lou Kongyu didn't even dare to imagine what the consequences would be.
He stiffly controlled his hand that was about to touch the beads on his neck.
——We can’t reveal any more!
Fortunately, Shen Jingzhi only glanced at him and quickly looked away.
The young man stood up with his sword in hand and looked around.
"Brother?"
The two female voices overlapped, and it was obvious that Mu and Ruan were confused by Shen Jingzhi's sudden action.
Chen Jingzhi did not answer, but looked at Lou Kongyu who had just breathed a sigh of relief, and said briefly, "Location."
"Ah, huh?"
Lou Kongyu was startled and uttered a few meaningless sounds.
On the contrary, Mu Yanyan panicked when she saw the palm-sized jade sword in Chen Jingzhi's hand, and began to explain haltingly, "Master, Senior Brother, I, I, I... I just mentioned it casually. Ah Chang is right, the secret realm is not so easy to be discovered, that demon cultivator is very cunning, and I don't know what means he used to hide..."
This jade sword is a talisman given to his apprentice by Yaochuan Jianzun. It contains three sword energies of Jianzun, which are enough to severely injure a great master in the Spiritualization Stage. For a sword cultivator whose training methods are so rough that people even wonder if there is some kind of life-and-death feud, this is probably the only tenderness between the master and the apprentice.
Moreover, Mu Yanyan dared to guarantee that if she said three sword energies, they were three sword energies. If Senior Brother Shen used them up accidentally, Sword Master Yaochuan would definitely not make up for them.
Yaochuan Jianzun was not like Mu Fengzhu. Although her father also had a stern face all day long, Mu Yanyan, as the apple of her eye, knew very well that her father was just a paper tiger. As long as she cried, even without crying, just howling, her father would definitely give her whatever she wanted and give in faster than her mother.
But if Yaochuan Jianzun cried in front of him...
——He will be killed, he will definitely be killed!!
Anyway, if this life-saving item is exchanged for spirit stones, it is more expensive than all of Mu Yanyan's belongings combined. If it is really because of her casual words that her senior brother wastes his sword energy here and has no way to escape from danger in the future, then she really wants to die to apologize.
Not only was Mu Yanyan explaining anxiously, even Ruan Chang couldn't help but persuade Chen Jingzhi to think twice.
Ruan Chang wondered if Shen Jingzhi's current behavior was because of what Yan Yan had just said, "Yaochuan Jianzun discovered the secret realm of Yangpoling." Although Senior Brother Shen was very reliable most of the time, when it came to Yaochuan Jianzun, the situation suddenly became confusing.
Thinking of this, Ruan Chang couldn't help but sigh deeply in her heart. She felt deeply that she was just like an old mother on this trip, with endless worries.
Chen Jingzhi did not respond to what Mu Ruan and the others said, his eyes still on Lou Kongyu.
Lou Kongyu's scalp tingled as he was being stared at. He resisted the urge to run away and pointed stiffly at the sky above the second bush from the left.
He managed to convince himself.
——Since the immortal senior is helping, it means he is not a bad person.
Mu and Ruan had no time to stop him. Chen Jingzhi threw the jade sword in his hand out like a hidden weapon without hesitation.
The shadow of a sword unfolded in mid-air. It was clearly not where the sword was pointing, but just by watching it one could feel its sharpness, to the point that it could sting one's eyes.
Lou Kongyu felt a vague sense of pain and wanted to look away, but his eyeballs seemed to be stuck and he couldn't move them away. There was a wet mark running down beside his eyes, and he didn't know whether it was blood or tears.
It was not until a hand with a medicinal scent covered my eyes and my vision darkened that the pain eased a little.
But Lou Kongyu unconsciously felt some regret in his heart.
——I want to see, see how sharp that sword is...
With the vision blocked, hearing became acute. Although what he saw just now was so sharp, it did not make any earth-shattering noise. Perhaps it was because it was too sharp and nothing could stop it?
In the end, Lou Kongyu only heard a light "pop" sound, as if some barrier was broken.
The sound is so subtle that you might even miss it if you don't listen carefully.
Then came the murmur of a female voice from above, "It's actually... really..."
Only then did Lou Kongyu realize that he was half-held by someone.
The boy was not used to being so close to others, and he stiffened all of a sudden. Lou Kongyu struggled a little, and thanked him a little stiffly. The other party seemed to come to his senses, took his hand away, stepped back a few steps, apologized quietly, and then smiled gently, "Just call me Sister Ruan."
Lou Kongyu did not answer for a moment, he was shocked by the scene before him.
The space is like a jigsaw puzzle that was broken and then reassembled, with scattered cracks. But it is also like forcibly combining two pictures of different scenes, the contents on the fragments flash back and forth, but there are always a few pieces that are out of tune with the surroundings.
Over there, Mu Yanyan stood there in a daze with her mouth half open.
She paused for a long time before raising her chin and said in a tone that was exactly what I expected: "See, I told you, the secret realm."
It's just that his eyes and expression are a little vague.
However, no one responded to this, and Mu Yanyan had no time to pay attention to these things at the moment. She was still blinking her eyes to try to confirm the truth of the situation in front of her, but she was pulled by Ruan Chang and urged: "Yanyan, what are you still standing there for? Go in quickly!"
By the time the group slowly moved in, the space rift that had been forcibly broken had returned to normal.
After a moment, a young man showed up at the spot and sighed softly at the open space that had completely returned to its original state.
"It's actually a secret realm," he murmured, "This is...difficult to deal with."
Having said that, there was no sign of embarrassment on his face.
Not to mention how distressed Qian Chen was for being stopped outside, the four people who entered the secret realm fell silent in an instant.
A mixture of stench and the smell of blood, the moment that indescribable smell rushed into the nostrils, even the monks felt faint.
Mu Yanyan couldn't help but take a step back, but the crack behind him was not the one where he came in.
Mu Yanyan noticed something wrong under her feet and looked back subconsciously. Then her eyes widened in horror and she let out a short, terrified gasp.
That is...
A...bone hand with half-rotten flesh still attached.
…
…………
Not just at your feet...
Everywhere you look, there are mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
The corpse of a monk decays slowly, and the higher the monk's cultivation level, the slower the decay.
So what was piled up here… were the remains of bones that had long since weathered, complete skeletons, the half-rotten limbs that Mu Yanyan had just stepped on, and even whole corpses that looked as if they had just died, with faces that were still full of life…
Mu Yanyan was in a trance.
What did she say before?
Secret realm? Ancient battlefield ruins, fairyland fragments, the tomb of the great?
here it is--
The ruins of the war between Taoism and demons thousands of years ago...
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